What You Measure is What You Get.

Einstein :
Not everything that can be counted counts.
And not everything that counts can be counted.

About me.

I know enough to know that at 04.00am it gets dark out on the streets. It has done this for the last twenty odd years, to my knowledge and will probably continue for the forseeable future. At some stage in this ‘future’ I shall retire and probably won’t give a damn if it still gets dark at 04.00am. Until then I shall be out there, somewhere, lurking in the shadows because someone, somewhere will be doing stuff they shouldn’t and then, well then I will introduce myself. In the meanwhile I shall try to remain sane and remember why I joined in the first place and try to ignore all the people who piss me off by making the job more complicated than it should be.

Opinions

Any opinions contained in posts are mine and mine alone. Many of them will not be those of any Police Force, Police Organisation or Police Service around this country. The opinions are based on many years of working within the field of practical operational Police work and reflect the desire to do things with the minimum of interference by way of duplication for the benefit of others who themselves do not do the same job. I recognise that we all perform a wide range of roles and this is essential to make the system work. If you don’t like what you see remember you are only one click on the mouse away from leaving. I accept no responsibility for the comments left by others.

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C.T.C. Constabulary.

A Strategic Community Diversity Partnership.
We are cutting bureaucracy and reducing the recording of target and monitoring related statistics.
Our senior leaders will drive small, economical cars from our fleet surplus to save money to invest in better equipment for our frontline response officers.
We are investing money to reinstate station canteens for the benefits of those 24/7 response officers.
We have a pursuit policy. The message is that if you commit an offence and use a vehicle, we will follow you and stop you if necessary. It is your duty to stop when the lights and sirens are on.
We take account of the findings of the Force questionnaire and are reducing the administration and management levels and returning these officers to frontline response duties.
We insist on a work-life balance.
We have no political masters.
We are implimenting selection processes that take account of an individuals skills and proven abilities for the job. Our senior leaders will have one foot in reality and still possess the operational Policing skills they have long forgotton about and seldom used. All ranks are Police Officers first and specialists second.
We will impliment career development and performance evaluation monitoring of our leaders by those officers who operate under that leadership.
The most important role is that of Constable. All other roles are there to positively support the role and the responsibility of Constable and the duties performed.

Whichendbites

“We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising. It can be a wonderful method of creating the illusion of progress while creating confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.”......Petronius

Just so.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Reality.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Rank V’s Responsibility

Don't confuse your idea of how important you are with the responsibility of your role.

Meetings.

If you had to identify, in one word, why we will never achieve our full potential, Meetings would be that word.

There is always a bigger picture.

When there is no answer to your problem, there is always deflection from the need to justify giving an answer.

Offender 1 has been convicted for a series of serious offences. He is classed as what we would called a nominal. He is a prolific and priority offender. He has warning signals for weapons (that means he usually carries a knife or other weapon) violence (that means he is violent and will use any level of violence he thinks is likely to prevent his arrest) and fails to appear (that means he will not appear at court on dates when he is due to attend).

Because of these points, there will always be a fight to arrest him, we will have to be careful because of the risk of injury which is, in his view, a deterrent, also we will ask for a remand in custody if he is charged because of his fail to attend history.

He also has an extensive history of substantial convictions from House burglaries, robberies, aggravated vehicle takings, pursuits with Police vehicles in which he has deliberately rammed Police vehicles and assaults on Police officers to try to prevent his lawful arrest.

Offender 2 has got a life sentence for the murder of a ‘friend’ who he stabbed an astonishing amount of times because he upset him. Offender 2 has shown disturbing personality traits, aggression towards other inmates and prison staff and failed to cooperate with treatment designed to ‘help’ him.

These are, no doubt, like many many others who are either convicted and sent to, or moved to because of overcrowding, from normal secure prisons to what is laughingly called an open prison. Not exactly Butlins, but there is normally a security guard behind a barrier to check you when you go in. How reassuring. I wonder if any actually leave the ‘security’ of the prison to go out daily to work in the community ?

Is it any wonder that should these offenders be transferred to such an open prison, decide that they have had enough and want to walk out and make themselves simply absconders, there is just a little bit of something that is not right there ?

They are not exactly enemies of the state, only absconders. Now doesn’t that just make you feel good about the decisions of people who claim to know a great deal about protecting the public.

I’m sure that even incarcerated offenders have rights to be upheld and protected, just like everyone else. Probably more machinery is in place to ensure that these rights are protected and even the most minute thought of a breach is challenged. How reassuring.

These open prison absconders seem to pop up with a monotonous regularity, the public are actively encouraged NOT to approach them so is there a big doubt of why they should be very loosely incarcerated within such a place as an open prison ?